Pidhirtsi Castle is a residential castle-fortress located in the village of Pidhirtsi in Lviv Oblast province western Ukraine, located eighty kilometers east of Lviv.
It was constructed by Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan between 1635ââ¬â1640 by order of the Polishââ¬âLithuanian Commonwealth`s Grand Crown Hetman StanisÃ
âaw Koniecpolski, on the place of the older fortress. The castle was then part of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and it is regarded as the most valuable of palace-garden complexes in the eastern borderlands Kresy Wschodnie of the former Polishââ¬âLithuanian Commonwealth.
Today, it is part of the Lviv National Art Gallery.
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